Helpful social media - Read It Later
Read It Later
(readitlaterlist.com) is the latest
mobile bookmarking service to
surface for Internet users that have
a lot to read, but not a lot of time.
Launched in 2010 by Nate Weiner, Read It Later is a tool that collects your links in a simple, clean space for review at any time. It has a to-do style interface that can be used through its website by way of plug-ins for your preferred web browser, or by a mobile app available on every smartphone platform.
When you come across a website, article or curiosity on your computer or on your mobile phone, you simply choose to save it to your Read It Later account to view later. Additionally, you can sync your reading list automatically between your computer and your mobile device, and choose to read your articles even when you don't have Internet access.
How it works
Read It Later records all of the relevant information about the article or website that you're reading (including the exact position of the page when you last looked at it) and stores them in a master list.
Access has been built in to many Twitter and newsreader apps, so you likely already have access to it — check your favourite social or browsing apps, it may already be there.
Why it's useful (or not)
Read It Later simplifies the process of gathering articles online and features them in the style of a to-do list — when you're finished with the article, check it off as read and it will be filed in the "read" portion of the application.
Browser plug-ins and mobile apps make it easy to incorporate into daily use. There is also a paid version of the service called Read It Later Digest that takes the random links you've saved and automatically sorts them into categories based on meta data that it finds on the link addresses themselves.
That said, you can manually edit each category with a series of keywords you'd like to use. Suppose you want your "music" category to include news and downloads. You can manually add the words "free," "download," "mp3" and more to ensure that any links with those words come up in that list.
Read It Later is a great way to save those articles and websites featuring relevant information to your studies, and all with the click of a single button in your browser or on your phone.
Launched in 2010 by Nate Weiner, Read It Later is a tool that collects your links in a simple, clean space for review at any time. It has a to-do style interface that can be used through its website by way of plug-ins for your preferred web browser, or by a mobile app available on every smartphone platform.
When you come across a website, article or curiosity on your computer or on your mobile phone, you simply choose to save it to your Read It Later account to view later. Additionally, you can sync your reading list automatically between your computer and your mobile device, and choose to read your articles even when you don't have Internet access.
How it works
Read It Later records all of the relevant information about the article or website that you're reading (including the exact position of the page when you last looked at it) and stores them in a master list.
Access has been built in to many Twitter and newsreader apps, so you likely already have access to it — check your favourite social or browsing apps, it may already be there.
Why it's useful (or not)
Read It Later simplifies the process of gathering articles online and features them in the style of a to-do list — when you're finished with the article, check it off as read and it will be filed in the "read" portion of the application.
Browser plug-ins and mobile apps make it easy to incorporate into daily use. There is also a paid version of the service called Read It Later Digest that takes the random links you've saved and automatically sorts them into categories based on meta data that it finds on the link addresses themselves.
That said, you can manually edit each category with a series of keywords you'd like to use. Suppose you want your "music" category to include news and downloads. You can manually add the words "free," "download," "mp3" and more to ensure that any links with those words come up in that list.
Read It Later is a great way to save those articles and websites featuring relevant information to your studies, and all with the click of a single button in your browser or on your phone.
